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But here's an object more of dread
Than ought the grave contains —
A human form with reason fled,
While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright,
A fortune-favored child —
Now locked for aye, in mental night,
A haggard mad-man wild.

— Abraham Lincoln My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844)

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